The Queer Tango Newsletter | March 2015

Sharing insights, ideas and Queer Tango events

Dear Reader

The Queer Tango Project supports conversations and the development critical ideas about Queer Tango. We are happy to promote open calls for paper/workshops/performances/interventions for Queer Tango events. This months we have published the following open calls at our website:

Join Ray Batchelor, Hélène Marquié and Jon Mulholland in Paris for The Queer Tango Salon: Connecting Bodies of Knowledge - an International Inter-disciplinary Symposium of Scholarship and Practice on September 16-17, 2016. Access is free! Read more.

More Essays in Spanish From The Queer Tango Book

We appreciate very much that Olaya Aramo has translated yet another couple of essay from The Queer Tango Book. Please share the essays below with you Spanish speaking friends and help us spread ideas and insights from the Book to a large audience.

This is the Spanish version of Birthe Havmoeller's essay 'How to Queer a Queer Tango: queer strategies for dual role dancers' from The Queer Tango Book, chapter 3: Rethinking the Dance. Translation by Olaya Aramo. … Read more.

We continue our Spanish series of essays from The Queer Tango Book and are happy to present a translation of Ray Batchelor's essay 'Coming Out to Dance: or getting it straight – a re-examination of the relationship of Queer Tango to the tango mainstream' from chapter three: Rethinking the Dance, The Queer Tango Book … Read more.

The Book The Queer Tango Book - Ideas, Images and Inspiration in the 21st Century is the first of its kind: a unique, international anthology of writings and artworks about Queer Tango from dancers, activists, academics, artist and … Read more.

Book Review

“Islam, homosexuality and tango are not incompatible,” Iz told the reporter doing a story on Gay Pride Day in Istanbul in 2011. Iz, who declined to give her last name, was dancing tango. The inclusion of her voice, that of a Turkish, … Read more.

A Queer Tango Documentary

Video (23:25): Comme il faut (Properly) with English subtitles. The film is made in Barcelona, Spain. It is a documentary about Roberto López, Carmen Hergos and the students at la Garúa Queer Tango Club Barcelona. Participants: Roberto López, Rodolfo Sanz, Carmen Hergos, Allesandro Tonin. Read more.